Info After a school shooting, there is a window of time when people search for answers, and provide each other with close mutual support. Let’s not wait for a future tragedy to ask these questions now, and work together in community to prevent these atrocities. Click to view full-size image… — Size: 13.5 kB Document…
Info Youth and Young Adults: What Can Be Done to Prevent School Shootings? In the USA, the topic of school shootings, especially by college and high school students, has periodically been center stage, involving unbearable and overwhelming heart ache for trauma for so many people. What questions can we ask to prevent these tragedies in…
Info Info on abuse by psychiatry in foster care Document Actions Print this Articles, news items, etc. related to misuse of mental health system within a foster care environment for youth. You’ll find a variety of items here related to how young people are especially vulnerable when in the care of the state,…
Info Info on abuse by psychiatry in foster care Document Actions Print this Articles, news items, etc. related to misuse of mental health system within a foster care environment for youth. You’ll find a variety of items here related to how young people are especially vulnerable when in the care of the state, because of…
Info Document Actions Print this The NY Times reports on a study in journal Pediatrics about massive drugging of young people in USA foster care homes, especially with so-called “antipsychotic” drugs also known as neuroleptics. Drugs Used for Psychotics Go to Youths in Foster Care Date Published: Nov 20, 2011 12:00 AM Author: Benedict Carey…
Info Canadian authorities are allegedly giving powerful psychiatric drugs to a nine-year-old girl diagnosed autistic, over the united and expressed wishes of the family, according to her father. MindFreedom issued this alert about how you can help. Ayn Van Dyk and her father Derek Hoare: Derek says Ayn is being forcibly drugged over the family’s…
Info Document Actions Print this The New York Times covered the way even very young children – even 18 months old – are being put on the super-powerful family of psychiatric drugs known as the neuroleptics or antipsychotics. Child’s Ordeal Shows Risks of Psychosis Drugs for Young Date Published: Sep 01, 2010 12:00 AM Author:…
Info Document Actions Print this The Reuters news service covers a new scientific study that shows that the number of children in the USA two to five years old who are labeled “bipolar” who put on the powerful neuroleptic or “antipsychotic” psychiatric drugs has doubled in the past decade. Bipolar diagnosis jumps in young children:…
Info Document Actions Print this The New York Times exposes that children are far more likely to be given the super-powerful “neuroleptic” psychiatric drugs, than middle class children. Neuroleptics are popularly known as “antipsychotics.” While MindFreedom is pro-choice about taking psychiatric drugs, there is a cover-up in the popular press that it is now established…
Info Document Actions Print this One of the largest newspapers in Canada ran this article about a Mad Student Society, where college students with psychiatric labels organize together for mutual support and social change. ‘Mad’ and proud of it Date Published: Nov 18, 2009 12:00 AM Author: Philip Fine Source: Globe and Mail Lucy Costa…